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Sunday, 12 August 2018

On anniversary of rally, how Charlottesville changed us

It’s been nearly a year since the deadly weekend of protests in Charlottesville, Va., where white nationalists and neo-Nazis clashed with counterprotesters, leaving a young woman and two state police officers dead and a nation that has long struggled with the dark side of its complicated racial history shaken to its core.

To put the calamity in perspective, Yahoo News interviewed more than a dozen people who were deeply affected by the events of that weekend. They included Charlottesviller Mayor Nikuyah Walker, the city’s first black female mayor; current and former city and state officials, including former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe andSen. Tim Kaine;SusanBro, the mother of 23-year-old Heather Heyer, who was killed when a car driven by a neo-Nazi plowed into a group of counterprotesters; Ryan Kelly, the photographerwhose photo of that moment won a Pulitzer, and Marcus Martin and Marissa Blair, survivors of the car attack captured in Kelly’s photo. Yahoo News also spoke to Elle Reeve, a Vice News correspondent whose Emmy-nominated documentary, “Charlottesville: Race andTerror,” offered a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the white nationalist leaders who planned the rally;ChristopherCantwell, a white nationalist prominently featured in the documentary who spent more than five months in jail on assault and battery charges stemming from the clashes, and Emily Gorcenski, an activist for transgender rights who says she was pepper-sprayed by Cantwell and has since moved to Berlin to escape threats.

For many, Charlottesville was supposed to be a teachable moment. “We lost our innocence,” says Edward Ayers, local historian and former president of the University of Richmond. “White people lost their innocence that weekend and can’t imagine that the statues just don’t mean anything, that all they are were testimonials to good faith of the past. I think it was an eye-opening experience for a lot of people.”

1 comment:

Yes I guess propaganda and the misreporting and dis-reporting can be eye opening or closing. The TRUTH about this highly organized SYNTHETIC event is not being told.

What Happened

o The "car" that was supposedly used in a crime or crimes is shown in separate videos as both having stripes and NOT having stripes. Which is it? A little thinking produces the obvious conclusion that the EVERYTHING connected with the car; IOW the main event is SYNTHETIC and preplanned.

o The driver of the crash car was almost certainly a PROFESSIONAL driver. Just look at the high speed reverse driving.

o The so called governor of Virginia indirectly arranged with the charlottesville police chief to FOMENT a confrontation between the opposing groups to promote violence and disorder.

o The two police officers killed, were almost certainly murdered. They were honest officers who saw something from their helicopter they were not supposed to see.

If you care to delve into this CRIME you will quickly find all kinds of things that make no sense, make no sense unless you are engineering racial and class strife. What a fitting end to eight years of fomenting strife,